Search Results for: Digital Literacy
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Startups
[Zambia] BongoHive FinTech Challenge Applications Opened
Zambian Innovation hub BongoHive has announced that it has opened applications for its annual BongoHive FinTech Challenge. Through this challenge,…
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BUSINESS
Why eCommerce companies in Kenya should adopt online payments solutions
Research firm eMarketer estimate that global eCommerce will rise by 20.7% in 2019 to $3.535 trillion. The firm notes that…
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80% of women in low- and middle-income countries are now mobile owner, GSMA Report
80 per cent of women in low- and middle-income countries are now mobile owners. This is according to the GSMA’s…
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COLUMNS
IT & Leadership: Deon Geyser – The 5G imperative
It has been just a decade since the mobile phone spread rapidly across Africa, leapfrogging the landline and bringing literacy,…
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Report: Africans spent more than 4 million hours reading online in 2018
African mobile users have spent more than 4 million hours reading books on their mobile phones in 2018. This is…
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COLUMNS
Picking up the Pieces: What’s Next for Zimbabwe’s Economy?
Dustin Homer, Director of Client Solutions, Fraym “Bob is gone.” At the end of November 2017, under intense pressure, Robert…
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COLUMNS
East Africa is the edtech hotspot
Opportunities Arising from Increases In Affordable Internet Access For many people Africa is known for the poverty of the people,…
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Start A Library Campaign raises Nine Million Kenya Shillings
The Start A Library Campaign has raised 9 Million Kenyan Shillings to support the development of 30 libraries to be…
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Worldreader and Opera Software Partnership Reaches 5 Million Readers in Africa via Mobile Phones
Barely four months into their partnership Worldreader, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital…
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RTI International and IBM deploy big data analytics and cognitive technologies in Mombasa County Schools
RTI International, a leading nonprofit research institute in partnership with IBM Research Africa have unveiled a new partnership to deploy…
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